How to Use Celery Seed in Cooking
Celery Seed is the dried fruit of the plant Apium graveolens, a wild variety of common celery. These small, brownish-green seeds have a flavor similar to celery combined with fennel or anise. Celery seed is particularly useful when you want to add a celery flavor to a cooked dish when the crispy crunch of the actual vegetable is undesired. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Create a fragrant bouquet garni that includes celery seed. A bouquet garni is a bundle of herbs and spices enclosed in a small, cheesecloth sack and immersed in simmering stews, broths and soups for added flavor. Remove the bouquet garni before serving.
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Make classic bread and butter pickles using celery seed for flavoring. Serve the pickles alongside sandwiches or hamburgers or eat them alone for a deliciously tart snack.
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Sprinkle ground celery seed on cold-cut sandwiches for an added kick.
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Add celery seed to any potato salad recipe for a fresh, summery taste.
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Season hearty, New England clam chowder with celery seed.
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Tips & Warnings
Celery seed is popular in German, Russian and Indian cooking.
The principal celery seed importers are India, China and, to a lesser extent, France. Indian celery seed has the strongest flavor and is lighter-colored than the mild-tasting, dark-hued French variety. Chinese celery seed has a flavor that falls in the middle between the Indian and French seeds.
Celery seed is so small that it takes about 750,000 to make a pound.
